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Gil Eanes (Eannes), pron. IPA: [ʒiɫ i'ɐnɨʃ], was a 15th century Portuguese navigator and explorer.

Very little was known of him. Eanes was in the service of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator. Sailing from Lagos, Eanes made an unknown number of voyages along the African coast. In his voyage in 1433, he sailed along the coast of Africa and reached the Canary Islands. He was the first to sail beyond Cape Bojador in 1434 and return. The discovery of a passable route around Cape Bojador marked the beginning of the Portuguese exploration of Africa. Before the trip of Eanes, there was a legend of a Green Sea of Darkness, beyond the Cape Bojador. Eanes made another voyage, with Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, in 1435. They sailed about 30 leagues (144 km), or even 50 leagues (240 km) south of Cape Bojador and reached African coast.

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15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500.

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  • 1402: Ottoman and Timurid Empires fight at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I.
  • 1402: The conquest of the Canary Islands signals the beginning of the Spanish Empire.

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Exploration is the act of searching or traveling for the purpose of discovery, e.g. of unknown regions, including space (space exploration), for oil, gas, coal, ores, caves, water (Mineral exploration or prospecting), or information.
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Infante Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu KG (Porto, March 4, 1394 – Sagres, November 13, 1460); pron. IPA: [ẽ'ʁik(ɨ)]), was an infante
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Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area.
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Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias
Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands

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Cape Bojador or Cape Boujdour (Arabic: رأس بوجادور, pronounced Ra's Boujador
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Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area.
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Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia (15th Century) was a portuguese sailor and discoverer. There are only a few reliable biographical facts relating to Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia. Substantial information is found in the passages of the contemporary historian and chronicler Gomes Eanes de
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A league is a unit of length or area long common in Europe and Latin America, although no longer an official unit in any nation. The league most frequently expresses the distance a person, or a horse, can walk in 1 hour of time (usually about 3.5 miles or 5.5 kilometres).
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Antonio de Abreu Portuguese 16th Indonesia
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